Sun 19 May 2019
How to handle lots of spam sign ups?
I think we should stop new sign ups at least temporarily. Also see https://git.fosscommunity.in/community/poddery.com/issues/32
Pirate Praveen started a proposal Sun 19 May 2019
Stop new sign ups temporarily Closed Wed 22 May 2019
Outcome
We can stop new sign ups temporarily and figure out ways to stop spammers in the meantime.
I think we need to stop new sign ups temporarily and figure out a way to stop spam sign ups permanently.
Results
| Agree - 3 |
| Abstain - 0 |
| Disagree - 0 |
| Block - 0 |
3 people have voted (5%)
Anish Sheela
Sun 19 May 2019
Yes. Have to handle spam. Else it will affect real users too.
Pirate Praveen
Sun 19 May 2019
Juan Santiago
Sun 19 May 2019
ok, this must be sustainable
Pirate Praveen Sat 8 Jun 2019
Diaspora HQ suggested disabling http 1.0 stopped spam sign ups, we could try that.
Pirate Praveen Tue 11 Jun 2019
After http 1.0 was disabled, the spam sign ups have stopped for now. We will have to now think about cleaning up existing spam accounts.
Bady · Tue 28 May 2019
i think we could try setting captcha image_style to
almost_invisible? we've already setdistortionashigh.